When we would give up hope on people, He remains faithful to His purpose!
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 1 Peter 3:18-20
Many days we wonder why the wicked prosper. We are just like some of the saints in the Word of God. In Luke 9:51-56, James and John wanted God to send fire down for judgment on the wicked. In Jeremiah 12, we see the weeping prophet calling out to the Lord complaining about the wicked being prosperous. He wanted God to slaughter them. If these men got their eyes off of the Who of salvation, questioned the why of God’s motives, and complained about the way He did things, don’t you think it can happen to you as well? Sure it Can!
Lord, help us to be as longsuffering as you are! Help me to love the sinner and hate the sin! Help me to love the sinner I once was!
